The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - attributed to Edmund Burke

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

lol just wait till you get to college chemistry our school had a distro room for assorted chemicals, and a bunch of tools and glassware were right next to that place. You break a test tube? Well go and get some more. But often, we used this tiny test tubes that chemicals would basically make impossible to clean and we just tossed them.
Then again, this all comes out of tuition... and ordering in bulk like they do, it's not a big deal.

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Originally posted by: KMc
It continues to amaze me that people still believe that the price of something is actually closely related to its cost.

well.

If the school orders new supplies every semester anyway (which they do):
*The only time costs include telling him to give them money, and putting the money in an envelope somewhere
*shipping cost is almost irrelevant.

No, it's a way to make sure that HS students, who are not, as a whole, the most responsible demographic, have some incentive not to screw around in chemistry class. You break it, you buy it. That way they don't have a bunch of teenagers abusing lab equipment.

It's just a way to encourage people to be more careful.

That said, it didn't stop me from breaking a thermometer (while trying to pull it out of one of those rubber stoppers) and ending up with the broken end jammed into my hand. I can still remember the dawning realization right after it happened that I had yelled, "Son of a BITCH!" when it pierced my hand and the teacher was standing immediately next to me.

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
The rule in my school was, "Either pay (an inflated price) for it or replace it yourself." No one cares in college.

Just pick one up in a local store and give it to her.

Lol i remember in Chem 1A in college they had lockers for all of us and they would conduct inventory checks at the beginning and end. Maybe it was Chem 1B or whatever but we had a chance near the end to salvage missing stuff in a bin full of crap. So if you were missing a test tube, just grab an extra one. Hah. I don't think it really mattered if u broke stuff in other chem classes like my upper div chem class I just took. Maybe if you broke the expensvie stuff like a dilatometer, you would get screwed, but a test tube? Ehhh.

Then again you're talking HS huh, so rewinding back then I think my chem teacher did say we had to pay if we broke small stuff.